'My mission is vengeance': Man says he killed four in response to US foreign policy

A Seattle man has told investigators he killed four people in Washington state and New Jersey this year in a mission to avenge the “millions” of lives “taken every single day” by the United States government, according to court documents.

Ali Muhammad Brown was charged Wednesday with the April shooting
death of Leroy Henderson, 30, in Skyway, Washington, according to
the King County Prosecutor’s Office. Brown had already been
charged with the targeted killing of two men in Seattle and a
college student in West Orange, New Jersey.

Brown owned up to each slaying, according to a criminal complaint
filed in King County, telling investigators that the shootings
were revenge for those killed by US military action in
Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

"My mission is my mission between me and my lord. That's
it," Brown said during an interview with investigators in a
New Jersey jail, according to the court filings. "My mission
is vengeance, for the lives, millions of lives, are lost every
day."

"All these lives are taken every single day by America, by
this government," Brown added. "So a life for a
life."

Brown is accused of killing Henderson near his home in Skyway,
near Seattle, on April 27. He later found Dwone Anderson-Young
and Ahmed Said via a dating application for gay men. On June 1,
Brown met them at a Seattle nightclub before he "essentially
executed" them at close range, court documents reported.

Brown, 29, fled to New Jersey once his photo was distributed to
news outlets by Seattle police. He then killed Brendan Tevlin,
19, in West Orange during what may have been a robbery, according
to prosecutors in Essex County, New Jersey. He was also linked to
multiple violent robberies in the state.

Brown was arrested at a makeshift campsite in northern New Jersey
on July 18, according to prosecutors cited by the
Los Angeles Times.

He called the shooting of Tevlin a “just kill,” and told
police he only sought to kill adult men as long as there were no
women, children or elderly persons present, according to court
documents.

Law enforcement believe Brown stole a vehicle and handgun from
the mother of his children, according to court documents. He used
the gun in all four killings.

Brown is in custody in New Jersey, where he has pleaded not
guilty to the killing of Tevlin. Whether he will stand trial in
New Jersey or Washington is yet to be determined.